The two spines
New South Head Road carries the harbour side, Old South Head Road the ridge. Both are working roads with signposted parking rules that change by the hour, so a spine-address move is a loading-window plan first and a lifting job second. The unit blocks live here too, which is why the apartment tier spends most of its time on the corridor.
| Street | Addresses | How we plan it |
|---|---|---|
| Old South Head Road | 473 | Ridge spine, ocean side. Mixed houses and blocks; kerb rules checked on the signage before the window is booked. |
| New South Head Road | 379 | Harbour spine and the busiest kerb on the sheet. Loading happens off the road wherever a side street allows. |
The harbour fall
The streets stepping down from the ridge toward Parsley Bay and the water. This is surveyed-move heartland: long drives, stair runs to lower gardens, retaining walls both sides. The suburb drops from about 79 m on the plateau to sea level at the reserves, and these streets are where most of that fall lives.
| Street | Addresses | How we plan it |
|---|---|---|
| Hopetoun Avenue | 258 | Long blocks falling toward the water; carries run downhill, so the crew plans rest points, not heroics. |
| Fitzwilliam Road | 120 | Steep harbour-side blocks. The walk-through happens before the truck is chosen, no exceptions. |
| Coolong Road | 57 | Waterfront estates on private drives, several with no turning room; reverse-in or shuttle plans are normal here. |
| Olola Avenue | 61 | Small harbour-side street where turning room decides the truck outright. |
| Wentworth Road | · | Estate streets near Vaucluse House; long garden carries are the rule, and the blanket count doubles. |
| The Crescent | · | Curving harbour-side street; the parking plan is made before the day, not found on it. |
| Vaucluse Road | · | The heritage heart around Vaucluse House: slow, narrow, leafy, and busy with visitors on weekends. |
The ocean pocket
Diamond Bay Road and its cliff-edge pocket face the Tasman rather than the harbour: 344 addresses of exposed, salt-aired street where the wind is a genuine handling factor for big flat pieces, and kerb space is tight enough that the parking plan comes first.
The plateau's residential grid
| Street | Addresses | How we plan it |
|---|---|---|
| Kimberley Street | 229 | Established houses, tight kerbside parking; we hold space early on move mornings. |
| Isabel Avenue | 162 | Quiet pocket off the ridge; the most straightforward moves on the sheet. |
| Military Road | 151 | The northern approach toward Watsons Bay; a through road, so the truck stands off it. |
| Captain Pipers Road | 127 | Connects ridge to harbour side; a useful staging street for shuttle plans nearby. |
| Clarke Street | 114 | Residential pocket with narrow verges; ramps and trolleys stay on the property side. |
| Marne Street | 60 | Short and tight; the small-truck default applies. |
A dot in the addresses column means the street sits outside the register extract we quote; the character note still comes from working it. If your street isn't on the sheet, the Access Survey covers it with the same questions we'd ask standing on it.
Notes + sources
- Address counts are from G-NAF, Australia's geocoded national address file, as published through open government data. They count registered addresses, not dwellings under construction.
- Suburb elevation and distance figures come from public mapping records; the drive to the CBD runs 9.6 km against a 5.7 km straight line, which tells you most of what you need to know about peninsula geography.
- Character notes are ours, from jobs, and get revised when the streets teach us something new.